Learning & Development
Spanish
The Spanish curriculum at Red Lane is rooted in the belief that high-quality language education should foster children’s curiosity and deepen their understanding of the world. We are committed to ensuring that competence in another language enables children to interpret, create and exchange meaning within and across cultures. It also helps children develop skills that will open further opportunities later in life. The formal teaching of Spanish in Key Stage 2 provides an appropriate balance of spoken and written language and lays the foundations for further foreign language teaching at Key Stage 3.
At Red Lane, Spanish is taught as a discrete subject in order that the development of knowledge and skills is taught meaningfully and explicitly. Naturally, links are made to other areas of the curriculum but this does not dilute the quality and entitlement of high quality Spanish teaching.
The school’s long term plan for Spanish sets out the content of teaching within in each year group. Spanish is delivered by a specialist language teacher and class teachers support pupils in class and play an active role in lessons in order to support practise beyond the lesson.
Teaching and Learning Spanish
In addition to the conscious structure and design of the Spanish curriculum, great consideration has been paid to the design of the implementation of the curriculum in the classroom. Teaching delivery will vary according to the activities being undertaken, but will follow the principles set out in the Teaching, Learning and Implementation policy and will include class, group and individual instruction and guidance, demonstration, and the use of questioning and discussion. The following resources and approaches are adopted across all year groups in order to ensure effective delivery of the intended curriculum.
Curriculum Overview
Our curriculum overview will be published online in the Autumn term.